Adjustable mirror support



Feb. 6, 1,923.

1,444,599. S. S. FHAZIN. ADJUSTABLE MIRROR SUPPORT.

HLED MAYI7. 19221 STANLEY S. FRAZ1\T, OF CHCAGO, ILLINOIS.

ADJ'USTABLE MIRROR SUPPORT.

.&pplicaton filed. May 17, 1922. Serial No. 561,560.

, a citizen or the United States o America,

and a r lent of Chicago, county ot Cook, and State of llhno1s, have mventeo certain new and useful T1nprovements in fi .djustahle Mirror Supports, of which the following is a specif "ation.

ll/ly invention relates to an atljus.stahle support for mirrors and has for its object the production of a device for supporting a plu rality of mirrors, preferably three, in any desired relationship to each other.

ln the accompanyng drawings- F 1 is a perspective elevation showing three mirrors held in a position convenient tor ordinary toilet purposes;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation with the mir 'rors side by side and with the expandible supports in their closed position;

Fig. 3 is a similar elevation with the mirrors iolded upon each other; and

'Fig. l is a plan of Fig. 3.

A horizontal base bar 10 has at its center a vertical pin 11 on which are pivoted legs 12. The pin 11 is a screw which may he tightened, and the legs have slots as shown at 13 in Fig. 1. As so constructech the legs may he adjusted to a variety of positions and may he secured at any desired position by tightening screw 11. Secured on one end of the bar 10 is a bracl:et 14, and on the other end is a slidable bracket 15 which may he secured at any position by means of a screw 16 passing thru slot 17 in bar 10. Secured to the lorackets land 15 are the lazy tongs 18, the upper ends of which are secured to brackets 19 and 20. A horizontal cross loar 21 is permanently secured to bracl:et 19 and adjustably secured to bracket 20 by a set screw 22. It will be evident that by expanding or contracting the lazy tongs 18, the bar 21 may be raised or lowered with respect to the bar 10, or the support upon which the; legs 12 may be standing. The lazy tongs 18 may be considered as an expanding and contracting standard.

On vertical pivots 23 and 24., at opposite ends of bar 21, are brackets 25 and 26 which are adjustahle on said pivots. In bracket 25 is a screw 27 which serves as a horizontal pvot for the lazy tongs 28, and on the outer ends of the lazy tongs 28 arehrackets 29 and 30 which support a vertical stem or rod 31" The bracket 29 is secured to the stem 31, out the loracket 30 is adjnstable thereon, A;

screw 32 provided with a suitable thumb nut serves to secure the lazy tongs 28 to the stem 31 so as to retain the said lazy tongs 28 at any desired expansion or contraction. Another thumb nut on the screw 27 serves to retain the lazy tongs 23 at any desired position on said screw as a pvot.

Pivoted on the upper end of the stem 31 is a fork 33, and pivoted in this ork by means of pins 34: is a mirror 35.

The parts supported on the right hand end of the bar 21 are duplicates, in all particulars, of those just described as heing2; supported on the left hand end. Briefly; they consist of the horizontal pvot 36, the lazy tongs 37, the stem 38, the fork 39 and mirror l-O.

Mounted at the center of the bar 21 is a stem or standard 4:1 which corresponde to the stems 31 and 38. Pivoted upon stem 41 is a fork 42 having pins 43 upon which is pivoted a mirror 44.

When the lazy tongs 28 and 37 are closed (contracted) and are adjusted on their pivots 27 and 36 so that the stems 31 and 38 are vertical, the mirrors 35, 4:0 and 4:4: will have the relationship to each other that shown in Fig. f2, which also illustrates the lazy tongs 18 as closed. The various parts are so proportioned to each other that, when the mirrors are in this relationship, the pvot 23 is directly below a point midway between mirrors 35 and 44, and pvot 2-l is directly belowa point midway between mirrors 40 and 44. If now the mirror 35 be turned hackward on its pvot 23, and the mirror 40 be turned forward on its pvot 24, the mirrors will he folded upon each other into the position shown in Fig. 4. This view shows the three mirrors slightly separated from each other, but they are movable to contact with each other. The front elevation of this closed and folded position is shown in Fig. 3.

In folding the mirror 40 forward on the mirror 44, the faces of the two mirrors come toward each other, leaving the hacks facing outward. In folding the mirror 35 backward on mirror 44, the face of 35 is normally outward. The mirror 35, however, is upon two independent pivots and turned upon either it can have itsface inwarol. One of these is the pivoting of the fork 33 on stem 31, and the other is the pivoting of the mir ror on the pins 34.

When the device is closed and folded as described, the screw 11 may be loosened and the legs 12 brought into the position shown in Fig. 3. In this position the legs are paraiie1 wit-h and below the fo1ded arms, and may be secured thus by tighteniug screw 1L t is to be observed that the lazy tongs b form an expanding and contracting ar1n Which permite the mirror pirot 31 to be moved radiaily toward or from the end of the bar 21. Also that the pirots 93 and 27 are at right angies to each other and :t'orm a universal joint upon which the mirror 3:: may be moved in any direction about the adjacent end of the bar 21. n addition, the mirror pivote 31 and are at ht angles to each other and form a second universal joint upon which the mirror may he made to face iu any direction irrespcctive of its location with respect to the other parts of the apparatus.

In the same way the mirror 4:0 is ou a universal joint on the outcr end ot the expanding and contracting arm 3?, and said arm 37 upon a universal joint composed ot pivote 2t and 36.

What I claim is:

l. An expanding and contractngx standard, a cross bar mounted upon said standard, a mirror supported at the center o the bar and at a position above the same,

expanding and contracting arms pivotaiiy connected to the opposite end of said bar. and mirrors supported on the outer ends of the arms and above the same on a 1ere.i with the.centrai mirror, said parts being so constructed that upon toldiug the arm upon the standard the outor mirrors w be folded upon opposite sides of the centrai mirror at a position above the standard and arms. 40 In a device of the class described, expanding and contractingstandard, en panding and contracting arms pirotaily counected to: opposite sides of said standard,

said arms being foldable upon the standar 4; and mirrors supported on said standard and arms.

3. In a device of the class described, :1n anding and contracting standard, a mirror carried on and supported above if;

standard, expanding and crmtracting ar: pivotaily connected to the upper part of said standard, and a mirror supported oz: the free ends of said arms, said parts heir :::o arrauged that upon contracting the stana STANLEY S. FRAZ1CN. 

